• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

2004 tc450 oil change

DON SIMMS

DON SIMMS

Husqvarna
B Class
Hey guys.. Just wondering if anyone knows the correct oil i should use on my 2004 tc450. I called 2 different local dealers and both gave me different answers. Any help wound be great!
 
What climate are you in? If cold, use the new 0w40 Mobil1 synthetic for European hot cars.
If hot climate, I use Mobil1 15w50 and also have mixed 0w40 and 15w50.
 
Husky have always recommended 10-60 but mostly that is hard to get and also we all live in differing climatic regions. I live in Sydney so think So Cal climate. I use a Motul 10-50 semi syn and have done so for about 10 years. However, I believe most non friction modified semi or full syn oils will suffice with the exception being extreme hot or cold climes.
 
DON SIMMS said:
In NJ so i guess both hot and cold. I think i have 15w-50 in the bike now but the dealer said 5w-40
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My bike has alot of miles and a 40 weight oil really makes the engine sound terrible, lots of rattly, metal sounds, the 50 weight really quietens it down.
 
We run M1 0W40, even in +106F degree weather. I'd run it even hotter, but it's just not comfortable for me to ride with all that gear on.
@OHR, it's not the 50W that is quieting your engine, it's the 15 initial weight when the engine is cold and has the larger tolerances. My KTM sounds the same way, I just let it sit and warm up for 5 minutes before taking off. If it was hurting the engine, you would hear a high pitched squeal just before it seized. I like your mixed ratios for older bikes which may have oil pressure issues.
 
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